In April this year, Breednet ran a story about Australian owner /breeder Matthew Sandblom’s bold move to send two Aussie bred NH time Extreme Choice fillies to France to be trained and the first of them to race made a winning debut overnight at Deauville.
Trained by Francis-Henri Graffard, Primetime Emmy was favourite for the 1200m juvenile newcomer fillies maiden and ran out an easy two and a half length winner for Mickael Barzalona.
Primetime Emmy ran a second faster than the colts division of this race adding further merit to the win.
Interviewed after the win, Frances- Henri Graffard was full of praise for Primetime Emmy.
“Matthew Sandblom, who loves Extreme Choice, wanted to prove the stallion is a champion as he is already in Australia, so he gave me this challenge to receive two fillies, northern hemisphere [time] bred,” he said.
“They arrived from Australia in early spring but they took a while to digest the journey over.
“This one recently she was really picking up, she looks really well and her work went very well pleasingly at home, so it's good. The distance of six furlongs, I think she'll be very interesting. I think I have a lot of improvement to come with her, so interesting filly to follow.
“Mickael said she jumped really well and travelled nice and relaxed and she accelerated instantly when he asked her, so she will come on for that.”
Stakes goals are on the radar for Primetime Emmy, who is a half-sister to two juveniles stakes-winners in Thurlow and Three Kings and is from super reliable stakes-winning producer Princess Emmy (NZ), who has had 10 foals to race for nine winners.
Princess Emmy was on-sold last May through Inglis Digital for $12,000 to Victorian based farm Lemrac Lodge and produced a colt by young Extreme Choice stallion Tiger of Malay last spring for her new owners before being covered by First Settler.
The Tiger of Malay colt was offered at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale by Lemrac Lodge and sold for $50,000 to A Grant.
Primetime Emmy is the first European winner for Newgate Farm’s flagship sire Extreme Choice, who stands this spring at a fee of $385,000.
